Cristiano Ronaldo leads the Al-Nasr attack against Al-Ain in the AFC Champions League

Luis Castro and Hernan Crespo announced as coaches Al-Nasr Saudi Arabia and Al-Ain UAE In order, the official formation of the Gulf Arab derby with an Asian flavor, in the first leg of the AFC Champions League quarter-finals for the current season, in the match that will be held at Hazza Bin Zayed Stadium at exactly six o’clock this evening, Cairo time..

Victory formation

Goalkeeper: David Ospina

Defense: Sultan Al-Ghanem, Ali Lagami, Aymeric Laporte, Aziz Behich

Midfield: Abdullah Al-Khaibari, Abdul Majeed Al-Saliham, Otavio

Offensive line: Sadio Mane, Cristiano Ronaldo, Ayman Yahya

Eye formation

Al Ain vs Al Nasr

Al-Nasr qualified for the quarter-finals of the AFC Champions League by defeating Al-Fayhaa in the round of 16 with a score of 3-0 on aggregate, while Al-Ain qualified for this round at the expense of Nasaf of Uzbekistan with a score of 2-1..

Cristiano Ronaldo and his companions are searching for the first global title in the AFC Champions League with a battalion of stars in Al-Nasr.

Historically, the confrontation between Al-Nasr and Al-Ain will be the first of its kind in the Champions League in the knockout rounds, noting that the two teams met in the group stage of the 2020 edition, and the Saudi club won at home, and its Emirati counterpart at home as well..

Asian Champions League

The winner of the Emirati-Saudi Summit, the winner of the Saudi Football Classico between Al-Ittihad and Al-Hilal, is awaited in the semi-finals, from which he will represent the West in the final against one of the teams from the east of the yellow continent..

Al-Nasr coach Castro excluded Croatian Marcelo Brozovic, Senegalese Sadio Mane, and Brazilian Alex Telles from his calculations against Al-Ain, UAE, in the first leg of the AFC Champions League quarter-finals..

The Portuguese Castro settled on the foreign six: his compatriots Cristiano Ronaldo, Otavio Montero, the Colombian David Ospina, the Brazilian Anderson Talisca, and the Spaniard Aymeric Laporte, in addition to the Australian Aziz Behich, to rely on in the main roster against Al Ain of the Emirates..

The Al-Nasr team is superior to its competitor Al-Ain in the UAE in terms of marketing value, as the market value of the Al-Ain team is 31.79 million euros, according to the global Transfer Market website, while the Al-Nasr team is 144.03 million euros, meaning that it is superior to its Emirati opponent by 112.24 million euros.